Seed-planter



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l,

H. D. REESE & M. P. GAME.

SEED PLANTEE.

No. 427,612. Patented May 13, 1890.

2 t e e h S m 8 av h s 2 E M A G R .3 Mm A &L EP Sm EE ES R D H m d o M O w No. 427,612. Patented May 13, 1890.

eountyiof Abbevillejand Stateof $outhCarouted by the machine,

UNinn Mares sEEo-xP ANTER, f

srncrrreamou; fuming are prism:- Application filed December To, allwhom it concern/r 1 Be it known; that we, HENRY Doreen Rnnsnand MoneANsF. GA E, eitizens ofthe United States, residing; at Abbeville, in 1 the lina, have inventedicertain new and useful Improvements in: Seed-Planters; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of. the invention, such to as will enable othersskilled in theartto which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to seed-planters for dropping seeds 10f various .kinds and such materials as maybe fed through or distriband has for its objects, among other things,to provide for regulating the distance apart which the seed or material shall be dropped, so that it may be dropped at greater or less distances, as may be desired, or, if desired, maybe dropped continuously; also, to provide for increasing or decreasing the width of the seed or material holding hopper, so that more or less material may be held therein within desired limits or its feed therefrom brought under control; also, generally to simplify and improve the construction of parts by means whereof the ground is opened, a channel is formed to receive the material or seed, which is dropped in regulated quantities or not, as desired, and which is then covered and the soil rolled; and to the accomplishment of such ends the invention consists in the construction and com bination of parts hereinafter particularly de- 5 scribed and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Figurel is a perspective of the seed-planter with portion of hopper and side bar broken 0 away. Fig. 2 is a side view, on an enlarged scale, with forward part of beam broken away. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through line 03 9c of Fig. 2, with side bars in full lines. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of hopper. Fig. 5 is a side 5 elevation of revolving chamber. Fig. 6 is an end view of revolving chamber, and Fig. 7 is a similar view of same with parts separated. Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are vertical sections through band of revolving chamber with openings in different positions.

errant Winn.

MORGANF. GAME, OF ABBEVILLE, sovrn CAROLINA.

Patent m. 427,612, dated Maggie, moo. t

6,1889. Serielhlo. 332,771. (Nomad) the beam, provided with ,the handles B and resting at one point upon; theorem-barf D, l ee dei wir connected by the arms El to upon: the braces G, con- 5 5 and at anotherpoint ected attheir lower endsuto theside barsF, orto a transverse bar G, connecting saidside bars. i

To one side of the beam A is securedahops per H, which has preferably converging sides and ends, and the lower portion of which is preferably contracted and then enlarged so as to form a chamber I below the exit-opening J in the lower portion of the hopper, in which chamber revolves blades K, secured to a shaft L passing through the chamber and journaled in the side bars F. This shaft also carries a concave plate or disk M, which fits close enough to the side of the hopper to close an opening a therein except where said opening communicates with a corresponding opening 1) in the side of the concave plate or disk, and the blades K, which fit in the chamber I, extend through the opening a into the open ing 1), and preferably taper or narrow from 7 5 their ends next to the openingb to their opposite ends, so that the material or seed passing from the hopper into the chamber I Will be fed by the blades through opening 1) into the chamber formed by the disk or plate M and a companion plate or disk M, secured to the same shaft L which carries the other plate M. As the two plates or disks M and M revolve with the shaft which carries the blades K, it is apparent that the material or seed fed from the hopper to the chamber formed by the two plates or disks will be continuously agitatet'l, and so that it will be impossible for the same to choke or form into a solid or compact mass. Both of the disks or plates being concave, their peripheries form a bottom to the chamber, and the two edges of the opposite plates being at a distance from each other, a continuous open space or channel is formed completely around the chamber; and in order that the width of-this channel may be increased or lessened, as desired or occasion requires, at least one of the plates is made adjustable on the shaft in some suitable wayfor instance, by screw-threading the I00 shaft and screwing the plate M thereon.

In the drawings, the letter A designates This chamber can be used with the periph- (No Model.)

F. D, RETTIGH.

PUZZLE. I No. 427,613. Patented. May 13, 1890.

4/ Cows are in the Corn Puzzle Drive the Cows (Marbles) out from [The Corn 1':n[o

their SI ails. 

